
In the show, a team of experts, which included a retired FBI agent and a behavioral analyst, came up with the theory that Burke was eating pineapple on that fateful Christmas Eve when his little sister came downstairs and took a piece of fruit from him (her autopsy revealed she had pineapple in her stomach at the time of her death). He was formally exonerated along with his parents in 2008, but he recently got a lot of unwanted attention when the CBS docuseries The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey aired in September. In 2008, two years after Patsy died of ovarian cancer, prosecutors officially cleared the family of any wrongdoing.ĭespite looking closely at JonBenét's parents, police were clear that her older brother, Burke, who was 9 years old at the time of her murder, was never a main suspect.

In 1999, a Colorado grand jury voted to indict Patsy and John because they believed they were abusive toward their daughter, which eventually led to murder. Boulder police believed for many years that on the night of the murder, Patsy injured JonBenét in a fit of rage and either killed her while still angry or killed her to cover up an injury. John and Patsy Ramseyīecause it seemed so unlikely that kidnappers would kill their victim, leave the body in their own home, and still leave behind a ransom note, police were quick to turn their suspicions to JonBenét's parents, John and Patsy. JonBenét's murder remains unsolved to this day, but there were a few main suspects that police thought could have committed the horrific act.
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There have been a number of documentaries and TV specials about the murder, and most recently, Netflix released Casting JonBenet, its chilling take on why the intense media attention of the Ramsey family has failed to waver. Unlike other murder cases that go cold after years of being unsolved, JonBenét's has done the opposite and only continues to heat up.

Police also later confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted. An autopsy of JonBenét's body revealed that she was struck in the head and strangled to death. 26 in the basement of their Boulder, CO, home roughly eight hours after her parents reported her missing after they found a ransom note. JonBenét's father, John, was the one who found her body on Dec. JonBenét Ramsey was only 6 years old when she was brutally murdered in her own home in December 1996, but the case has continued to fascinate the public in the more than 20 years since then.
